Homilist Deuteronomy 8:1-2 All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply… I. A DIVINE SUPERINTENDENCE of human life. 1. The fact of this superintendence. "The way of man is not in himself." 2. The purpose of this superintendence. Moral discipline. II. A SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION of human life. Morally, we are all in a wilderness, intricate, perilous, privational. It is only as we get the true manna from heaven that we can live spiritually in the wilderness of our present life. III. A SOLEMN OBLIGATION of human life. "Remember." 1. Man does remember the past. Cannot help it; linked to it by a necessity of his nature. 2. Man does not always remember God in the past. This is the duty here commanded — to see God in the past, to see Him in all, in the tempest and the calm, the darkness and the sunshine. IV. AN ETERNAL NECESSITY of human life. Bread is not more necessary to support material life than the Word of God to sustain spiritual. The soul can only live as it receives communications from the Great Father of spirits. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers. |
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